Description
A Flash of Blue – Kingfishers, Original Silk Painting and Signed Giclee Prints.
Kingfishers are so beautiful I long to watch them but frustratingly all you usually see is ‘A Flash of Blue’. You know exactly what you have seen but yet it is so elusive…
My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects.
The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.
You can see a time lapse video of me painting?here.
The original painting will come mounted to fit a 60 x 60 cm frame. The actual image size is 40 x 40 cm. Frame is not included.
A signed giclee prints is printed on fine art 308gsm paper using archival inks and is signed by the artist. Each print will come mounted in white and packed with a backing board in biodegradable cellophane. It is an open edition so there is no limit to the number of reproductions that can be made. The following sizes are available:
| Size | Mount Size (frame size required) | Actual Image Size |
| 40 x 40 cm | 40 x 40 cm | 29 x 29 cm |
| 30 x 30 cm | 30 x 30 cm | 19 x 19 cm |
| 20 x 20 cm | 20 x 20 cm | 14 x 14 cm |
